We made it to Rio! It was a really long journey, over 30 hours. Which included a delayed flight and one full body pat down at the airport because TSA detected an explosive chemical in my stuff. All clear tho! From the airport, we took an Uber to our hostel in the Leme area. Little did we know our hostel was in a Favela. A favela is basically a ghetto, low income area in Brazil. Super, super poor area. Once we got dropped off up a steep hilly road, we had to climb a ton of narrow, steep steps throug a small alleyway to reach our accommodations.
Green Culture hostel in the Leme area is in a GrEaT location! If you don’t mind being in a favela with running water being hit or miss and when there is running water expect a cold shower! Which is actually pretty nice after a long hot day. Oh and seeing guys with guns in the streets. We were told they are just interested in drugs and not us.
We were a little nervous when first arriving to our hostel but we were immediately greeted by so much cool travelers, we threw our bags in our room and went up to the rooftop by a narrow ladder that went through a hole in the ceiling. There people were dancing and steak was slowing cooking on the grill. First night in Brazil and tried the best steak i have ever had!! Brazilians do steak right. I asked the secret and Paulo (our hostel owner) said slow cooked and salt. And went they say slow cooked, i mean SLOW cooked. He would cut some of the steak into tiny pieces. Then would pass around a bowl of cut steak and everyone would take a piece or two. This continued all night with more steak bowls passed around and dancing on the rooftop into the morning sunrise! It was a great welcoming to Brazil!!!
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